Web Standards - Who Cares!?

Spiral cares because web pages built to comply with the World Wide Web Standards benefits you - our customer by bringing you more customers and a wider audience.

At Spiral we develop your website to comply with the World Wide Web standards as closely as possible. Using web standards and separating structure from presentation brings benefits for you, our customer, for now and for the future.

For today, you get:

• more audience
• better Search Engine Ranking
• lower cost to produce new content
• becoming compliant with accessibility requirements (essential for Government clients)
• helps your website visitors with print versions of the website, without replicating content
• improved user experience - standards compliant sites use less bandwidth and load faster
• site-wide look and feel consistency

For tomorrow, it means

• reduced cost of maintenance
• reduced cost of hosting (smaller files)
• better return on investment
• having a more flexible web site in terms of presentation
• future-proofed site - as new browsers are released your site still looks great

Those of you interested in finding out more about web standards at www.w3c.org.

© Spiral Web Design Limited

November 2006

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